Software Engineer

Job Description

We are looking for a hands-on Tech Lead – Java with strong software engineering fundamentals, a deep understanding of Java-based backend systems, and proven experience leading agile teams. This role involves a balance of individual contribution and technical leadership — mentoring developers, designing scalable architectures, and driving the success of product delivery in fast-paced environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end design, development, and deployment of Java-based applications and RESTful APIs.
• Collaborate with product managers and architects to define technical solutions and translate business requirements into scalable software.
• Guide and mentor team members in best coding practices, design patterns, and architectural decisions.
• Drive code reviews, technical discussions, and ensure high code quality and performance standards.
• Troubleshoot critical production issues and implement long-term fixes and improvements.
• Advocate for continuous improvement in tools, processes, and systems across the engineering team.
• Stay up to date with modern technologies and recommend their adoption where appropriate.

Required Skills

• 5+ years of experience in Java backend development with expertise in Spring/Spring Boot and RESTful services.
• Solid grasp of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), system design, and design patterns.
• Proven experience leading a team of engineers or taking ownership of modules/projects.
• Experience with AWS Cloud services (EC2, Lambda, S3, etc.) is a strong advantage.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies and working in cross-functional teams.
• Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.

About HummingWave

HummingWave is a leading IT product development company specializing in building full-scale application systems with robust cloud backends, sleek mobile/web frontends, and seamless enterprise integrations. With 50+ digital products delivered across domains for clients in the US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, we are a team of highly skilled engineers committed to technical excellence and innovation.

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What’s the opportunity?

Are you a backend developer looking to fast-track your learning and growth? Have you looked at world-class products like Asana, Notion, or Airtable, and felt “I wish I were part of the early team that built these products”?

We’re a team that has previously built and rolled out globally successful SaaS products used by tens of thousands of customers. We’re laser-focused on delivering a world-class product again, and looking for an ambitious backend engineer to join our existing team of 9 engineers. 

If it excites you to think of a fast-paced start-up environment, building something big from scratch, breaking down new problems, creating new APIs, working on performance issues, getting hands-on with DevOps initiatives, and showcasing demos of your work every Friday with a happy and passionate team, then this is the right opportunity for you.

Some of the tech problems you get to work on as a backend engineer would be to build the backend for a modern spreadsheet experience from scratch, work on infra as code, write robust code that is fault-tolerant, work on performant code that adheres to SLOs set by the organization.

About you:

● 3- 5 years of experience

● Expertise in the following areas ○ Java ○ HTTP Protocol

● You’ve heard of or worked with some of the following tech stacks/products ○ Spring ○ PostgreSQL ○ Redis ○ Docker ○ Message brokers ○ GitHub

● These non-functional areas are familiar to you ○ Performance ○ Debugging ○ Log management

Nice to have:

● Familiarity with AWS

What’s in it for me?

● Great opportunity: We genuinely care about everyone we hire. You’ll learn new things and grow no matter how experienced you are; you will be working with founders who have more than three decades of collective experience in building significant B2B SaaS startups.

● Great team: Work with a world-class, high-velocity team that truly embodies the values of empathy, curiosity, and customer-centricity. Check out the MTT(Meet The Team) videos on our LinkedIn.

● Great culture: An open, fun, and exciting startup culture that empowers its people to champion big problems with the freedom to think and innovate.

● Growth: You could easily and quickly transition into other roles you might like.

● Impact: You get to be part of a global, passionate team in a fast-paced and growth-oriented environment. The team has a work philosophy of being high on ambition, ownership, and a bias for action.

● Monetary rewards and benefits: Competitive stipend, flexible leave policy, and more

We are looking for experienced Odoo Developers with good development skills in Python. Candidates should have hands-on experience in end to end implementation of the custom modules in Odoo.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and deploy ERP/ web applications using OpenERP/ Odoo.

• Customize/ develop various modules such as Accounting, POS Sales & CRM, inventory, Purchasing, , Invoice, Website, Google map, Warehouse, MRP, HR, etc.

• Customize various modules and integrate services/ products ranging from payment gateways to hardware devices with Odoo.

• Understand Functional requirements from clients. Provide GAP analysis and transform them into technical requirements.

• Functional knowledge of ERP modules like Accounting, Stock, CRM, Inventory, HR, Sales, Purchasing, Manufacturing, E- Commerce, and Payment gateway.

• Experience in Migrations, Odoo end user training.

• Knowledge of OOP concepts, SQL, HTML and JavaScript.

• Experience in hosting on AWS or other cloud service providers

• Ability to understand client requirements and translate them into business solutions.

• Develop and deploy ERP modules from scratch

• Adopt new and emerging technologies to provide solutions to client needs. Cater to time difference need

• Identify technical issues and provide solutions

• Testing support.

• Develop and customize reports based on client s specifications in the modules like Accounting, Inventory, Manufacturing and HR. Work on Odoo's internal BI reporting tool for live reports

• Skills

• Strong familiarity with the Odoo framework is mandatory.

• Should have a solid knowledge of Python and programming concepts. Contribution for Open Source Projects will be advantageous.

• Good problem solving and analytical skills

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Desired Candidate Profile

• Work on building scalable backend platform for customer & seller apps, brands platform, demand generation platform, supply chain & logistics platform, credit platform and several cross platform software components
• Participate in the process to fundamentally change the food and grocery ecosystem in India, and impact billions of people through technology, mobile, and data science

Requirements:

An ideal candidate for this role is someone who has-

• BE/BTech degree in Computer Science from a top engineering school
• 1-5 years of professional software development experience
• Strong problem solving skills and strong command on object oriented design, data structures, algorithms and other computer science fundamentals.
• Strong coding skills - professional experience in developing production-quality software in Java/Python
• Expertise in Web Services, Service-oriented architecture, Databases, NoSQL, Distributed systems, Cloud Technologies.
• Extreme software engineering skills to design and develop low-latency, high availability, internet-scale web services
• Solid understanding of the full software development life cycle and software engineering best practices
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Demonstrated ability to own software design and development end to end from requirements to launch.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• A startup mindset  - An athlete who can run at breakneck speed of a startup, yet someone who can bring method to madness through processes suitable for different stages of the company - early stage prototyping and rapid experimentation, before product/market fit, after product/market fit, and scaling.
• Familiarity with Agile development, Scrums, continuous integration, and test driven development processes
• Data driven product development approach - strong focus on data backed engineering decisions.
• Ability to develop products incrementally in fast iterations
• Ability to do collaborative problem solving and design/build chaos resilient systems
• Strong focus on software quality
• Ability to mentor junior developers, and help build an excellent engineering team
• Ability to be a talent magnet - attract great talent to join the core team.